![](/files/image/Breaking%20the%20Silence.jpg) | Testimony - "People always exaggerate" [2007] - A former Israeli soldier provides a testimony to Breaking the Silence in which he describes how a soldier beat a child at a checkpoint for five minutes because he did not understand what he was supposed to do. |
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![](/files/image/Breaking%20the%20Silence.jpg) | Testimony - "Harassment post" [2007] - A former Israeli soldier provides a testimony to Breaking the Silence in which he describes how a fellow soldier would beat Palestinian children at a checkpoint and made them sing the Israeli national anthem. |
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![](/files/image/Breaking%20the%20Silence.jpg) | Testimony - "Source of pride" [2007] - A former Israeli soldier provides a testimony to Breaking the Silence in which he describes how another soldier appeared to be proud of beating up a young Palestinian adult at the entrance to his village. |
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![](/files/image/Breaking%20the%20Silence.jpg) | Testimony - "They have to be respected" [2007] - A former Israeli soldier provides a testimony to Breaking the Silence in which he describes how they would detain boys with dirty hands on suspicion of throwing stones. |
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![](/files/image/Breaking%20the%20Silence.jpg) | Testimony - "Did you swear at the soldier?" [2007] - A former Israeli soldier provides a testimony to Breaking the Silence in which he describes how a soldier accuses a boy of swearing at him so that the boy's father will hit him. |
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![](/files/image/Breaking%20the%20Silence.jpg) | Testimony - "Getting beaten all the way" [2007] - A former Israeli soldier provides a testimony to Breaking the Silence in which he describes how children get repeatedly beaten after being detained by the army inside a military jeep. |
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![](/files/image/Breaking%20the%20Silence.jpg) | Testimony - 'The guys are bored, they want action' [2007] - A former Israeli soldier provides a testimony to Breaking the Silence in which he describes how soldiers would deliberately cause trouble in a Palestinian village when they were bored by throwing stun grenades into the a mosque. |
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![](/files/image/Breaking%20the%20Silence.jpg) | Testimony - "Jeans and a red shirt" [2007] - A former Israeli soldier provides a testimony to Breaking the Silence in which he describes how after a stone throwing incident the army would arrest children who most closely resembled the description they were given, even if they were not sure. |
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![](/files/image/Breaking%20the%20Silence.jpg) | Testimony - "Can't tell right from wrong" [2007] - A former Israeli soldier provides a testimony to Breaking the Silence in which he describes how is commanding officer placed a loaded gun in a 14-year-old's mouth and threatened to shoot. |
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